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Rodeo Volunteers Demand
To Keep the Right to Sue

Some Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo volunteers are refusing to give up the right to sue if they get hen-pecked, horse-drawn or bull-gored at the annual charity event.

For years, organizers of the show have been asking the 11,000 volunteers who serve on the committees and make the show run to sign a liability waiver and indemnification, and usually there were no complaints about it, says Don Gattis, the rodeo's general manager. But...